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August 2008
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Office 2007 - SmartArt
Have you been Backscattered?
16+ hour laptop battery
Multi-protocol IM
 
SmartArt Graphics
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2007 Microsoft Office offers a new way to quickly add polished graphics and diagrams to your Office files (Word , Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) This new feature, called SmartArt graphics, incorporates a gallery of templates and predefined shapes that can be quickly inserted and customized.

Give your message a visual impact!!
 
 
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Hi folks,
Summer is almost over. It's right about now when someone will say, "I can't believe that summer's almost over!  Where'd the time go?"  And we all take a collective sigh. How do we recover from this pathetic condition? I suppose some will notice the colors of the trees changing and begin to think about all the things that they like about fall.  Meanwhile, I am longing for an Indian summer!  Regardless of which camp you fall into....enjoy!
 
 
Wait a second...I didn't send that!
Have you ever received a 'return to sender' email that indicated your email message couldn't be delivered, but you never actually sent the original message?  If so, you've been backscattered!!
 
Depending on which study you look at 80-90% of all email can be classified as spam.  The defense against these unsolicited messages has increased, and in turn, so have the savvy methods of the spammers that send them.  
 
 
 
Dell unveils 16+ hour Latitude laptop

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Dell has developed proprietary technology to boost battery life in its Latitude laptops.  Dell has announced a series of Latitude laptops, which provide 16+hours of battery life. 
 
The company's Latitude E6400 runs for as much as 10 hours on a single nine-cell battery, and an additional battery that snaps on to the bottom of the laptop adds up to nine hours of battery life, Dell officials said at a press event in San Francisco. That gives users close to a full day of laptop use without carrying an AC adapter to recharge the batteries.  
 
 
Do you use more than one Instant Messenger?
 
pidginDo you find yourself using AIM to talk to some of your contacts, and MSN or Yahoo IM for others?  Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your clients using AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and a host of others.
 
With Pidgin, you can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This gives you the ability to chat with your traveling salesman on AIM, talk to a client on Yahoo Messenger, and talk to a colleague on Groupwise Messenger all at the same time and in the same program.  Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. Pigin is free.
 
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Sincerely,
Chris
 
 
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